Orchid XP v8 <voi### [at] devnull> wrote:
> "I was TA for a C++ programming course aimed at 1st year physics once. 
> Some girl asked for help. 'I wrote pseudo-code but I cannot translate it 
> to C++'. Her pseudo-code was valid Haskell. I cried."

  I would be really surprised if that was a real story.

> "If you read a haskell book or an FP book, by chapter 5 it's already 
> doing data structures. It's chapter 10 in imperative books."

  It depends on the book, really.

  If I were to write a book on C++, I would start with object-oriented
programming concepts and the first C++ keyword which would appear in the
entire book would be "class".

  (I really think that books which start with "main()" or a "hello world"
program are starting from the wrong end of the spectrum.)

-- 
                                                          - Warp

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